Skirt-supporter.



v PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

L. A. PHILLIPS. SKIRT SUPPORTER. ARPLIOATION FILED JULY 7.1905.

INVENTOR WITNESSES."

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application filed July 7,1905. Serial No. 268,678.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUcY ANN PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lucca, in the county of Barnes and State of North Dakota, have invented a new and Improved Skirt-Supporter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in supporters for dress-skirts, the object being to provide a supporter of novel and inexpensive construction that may be permanently attached to a corset or like garment and that will firmly hold the skirt in place or closely against the back of the wearer.

I will describe a skirt-supporter embodying my invention and then set forth the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the views Figure 1 is a perspective view of a skirtsupporter embodying my invention, showing the same in position. Fig. 2 shows a portion of a corset with the skirt-supporter thereon. Fig. 3 is a section on the line a: x of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the device, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view thereof.

It may be here stated that in practice two supporting devices are employed-one at each side of the corset-opening at the back. A dlelscription of one, however, will answer for bot The supporter comprises a plate 1, of suitable materialsuch, for instance, as metal and as a means for securing the same to a corset or similar garment I employ a pin consisting of a single length of wire, a portion 2 of which passes along the outer side of the plate, thence through an opening near one end thereof and formed in a coil 3 at the inner side of the plate, and from this coil the pin portion 4 extends. At the opposite end the portion 2 of the Wire is extended through an opening in the plate and is turned to form a hook or keeper 5 for the pin. The skirt-engaging device consists of a single length of wire having a portion 6 extending along the front of the plate and then extending inward through openings in the plate and downward at the inner side of the plate, as indicated at 7, thence through openings in the plate, and

turned upward to form hook members 8 at the front of the plate.

having a pin on its rear face for securing it to a garment and provided with two pairs of openings below the pin, and a piece of Wire passed through the upper pair of openings from front to rear, then bent downward along the rear face of the plate and then passed through the lower pair of openings and having its terminals bent outwardly and up wardly to form hooks on the front face of the plate.

2. A skirt-supporter, comprising a plate having means for securing it to a garment and provided with two pairs of openings below the securing means, and a piece of wire passed through one pair of openings, then bent to extend vertically along the rear face of the plate and then passed through the other pair of openings and having its terminals bent outwardly and upwardly to form hooks on the front face of the plate.

3. A skirt-supporter comprising a plate, a single length of wire having a portion extended along the front of the plate, thence through the plate and formed in a coil terminating in a pin member, the other end of said wire also being extended through the plate and formed into a keeper for the pin member, another length of wire having a portion extended along the front of the plate, thence havin portions passing through the plate and ownward at the inner side thereof, thence outward and upward, forming skirtengaging hook members.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LUCY ANN PHILLIPS. 

